Emma Thompson makes for an unlikely rebel. Her Christian faith was nurtured through Anglican choral music and the Book of Common Prayer. She teaches Sunday school and conducts a choir in her church.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe local level, in my book, is where all the good happens \u2014 the love, the looking after your neighbour, the delivery plan for being a Christian,\u201d says Thompson, a former City solicitor and now a company secretary and freelance journalist.<\/p>\n
Her passion for local parish churches is fierce to the point that, she says proudly, the two most senior clerics in the Church of England have described her as a \u201crascally voice\u201d.<\/p>\n
Attendance in the Church has fallen by nearly 40 per cent since 1979, according to the British Religion in Numbers online data resources, and by more than 15 per cent alone since 2013.<\/p>\n
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